This short note is about my interaction with this fascinating technology, which has made its appearance only very recently but has shown exponential progress in print quality, speed, and software, while the costs keep falling every day. In my view, the day is not too far off when every orthopaedic surgeon will be having a 3d printer in his office. I first begin with a short note which has been culled from the internet.
3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing (AM), refers to processes used to create a three-dimensional object in which layers of material are formed under computer control to create an object. Objects can be of almost any shape or geometry and are produced using digital model data from a 3D model or another electronic data source such as an Additive Manufacturing File (AMF) file. The term "3D printing" originally referred to a process that deposits a binder…
